Saturday 24, 2018

Tour of local art centers and studios in Toledo, OH

Featuring:

Gathered Glass Blowing Studio

Sofía Quintero Art and Cultural Center

The Toledo Museum of Art

Artist Bios

Adrian Green, a Barbadian performer, writer, and visual-artist, is a two-time Gold Award winner in Barbados’ National Festival of Creative Arts, a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award in the performing arts, a three-time Barbadian Slam Poetry Champion, and two time winner of the Emancipation Roots Experience Show.His weekly newspaper column is published by the most widely circulated newspaper in Barbados, The Nation. His three CD compilations of poetry are “Random Acts of Conscience,” “Hard Ears” and “Art is Chemistry.” Adrian Green has performed to audiences in Europe, North America, Africa and throughout Caribbean. Green holds an M.A. in Communications, a B.A. in Advertising and Fine Art and is currently pursuing a Phd in the department of Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies.

Áurea María Sotomayor-Milleti is a Puertorican writer and Professor of Latin American, Cultural Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her PhD from Stanford University and a J.D. from the University of Puerto Rico. She is one of the most prolific poetic voices from the 70’s generation in Puerto Rico, and her work has been included in many anthologies in Latin America and her own country. As a poet, she has published the books: Sitios de la memoria (1983), La gula de la tinta (1994), Rizoma (1998), Diseño del ala (2005), Cuerpo nuestro (2013) and Artes poéticas (2014), among others. She was also co-founder of the cultural, literary and post-modern theory-oriented journals Postdata, Nómada and Hotel Abismo in Puerto Rico. She has published a bilingual annotated translation of Derek Walcott’s The Bounty (Fragmento Imán, 2010), and two anthologies: De lengua, razón y cuerpo (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1987) on nine contemporary women poets, and Red de voces (Casa de las Américas, 2011). Her works of literary criticism include Hilo de Aracne. Literatura puertorriqueña hoy (Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1995); Femina Faber. Letras, música, ley (Callejón, 2004); Poéticas que armar. Modos poéticos de replicar al presente en la cultura puertorriqueña contemporánea (Educación Emergente, 2017) and most recently Entre objetos perdidos. Un siglo de poesía puertorriqueña (UNE, 2017).

Olman Piedra is associate professor of percussion and drum set at The University of Toledo. He has performed with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, the New York Voices, the National Arab Orchestra Tahkt Ensemble, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica amongst others. He can be heard on several chambers, jazz, Afro-Cuban, and Orchestral music CDs. Dr. Piedra is an educational artist/clinician for Amedia cymbals, Meinl percussion, Remo drumheads, Black Swamp Percussion, and Innovative Percussion.

Sponsored by: The College of Arts & Science Ethnic Cultural Arts Program (ECAP), College of Arts & Sciences, World Languages and Cultures, Department of History, School of Cultural and Critical Studies, Institute for the Study of Culture & Society, English Department, the Graduate College.

Special thanks to Amy Smith and Rachel de La Cruz from World Languages and Cultures, to Grounds for Thought, and the University Libraries.

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